TradingPartners Announces Appointment of Steve Baggerly as Chief Technology Officer

CHICAGO, Jan. 10, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- TradingPartners (www.tradingpartners.com), the leader in spend management and visibility technology and services, today announced Steve Baggerly as the company's chief technology officer (CTO).  Steve will be responsible for leading the continued development of SpendScience™, the company's proprietary cloud-based spend visibility platform with dashboard and alerting capabilities that was released last year.

Steve is a seasoned technology executive with experience in building procurement transaction and supply chain applications for a variety of industries including foodservice, healthcare, institutional, and retail supply chains. Steve has over 15 years of experience delivering highly robust, mission-critical e-commerce and SaaS platforms. Previously Steve served as CTO at foodservice industry technology provider, Amphire Solutions, before the company was acquired by private equity firm Accel/KKR and subsequently merged with iTradeNetwork. Steve spent 10 years with Amphire helping build and grow the company's cloud-based procurement transaction products.

Mark Barnekow, chairman and CEO of TradingPartners said: "It's great to reassemble the key players who made Amphire a success. Steve brings tremendous experience building high transaction volume, and cloud-based platforms which will be significant to help us to continue to build a robust, scalable platform for our global customers."

Newly appointed CTO, Steve Baggerly said: "Mark and the team at TradingPartners have created a significant vision around spend management and visibility in the cloud. I look forward to contributing to another successful business with Mark and my former Amphire team members."

About TradingPartners

Based in Chicago, with European headquarters in London, and operations in Africa, Asia and Latin and South America, TradingPartners provides growing companies and global Fortune 500 firms with the most comprehensive and effective spend management and visibility technologies and services.  With a global vertical focus in foodservice, healthcare, manufacturing, public sector, retail and services industries, TradingPartners assists its customers to reduce the cost of their direct and indirect purchases with tangible results often in the 10-25% range.  TradingPartners' unparalleled domain expertise, comprehensive supplier database, and robust spend management technology platform have helped hundreds of corporations and public sector entities achieve dramatic business process improvements and tangible cost savings.  For more information, visit www.tradingpartners.com.

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